A Polish casket manufacturer called Linder is trying to drum up publicity for its product with a sexy calendar. The calendar features pictures of models, either topless or in sexy lingerie, posing seductively with the company’s coffins. (Click the link above to see the pictures. You need to see for yourself. They are...unusual.)

Owner Zbigniew Lindner says "My son had the idea of creating the company's calendar so that we could show something half-serious, colorful, beautiful; the beauty of Polish girls and the beauty of our coffins.” He adds, “We wanted to show that a coffin isn't a religious symbol. Its a product," said Lindner. "Why are people afraid of coffins and not of business suits, cosmetics or jewelry?"

OK, fair point. They manufacture a product and as a business, they need to find ways to sell it even if it’s a product related to death.

But really, I don’t understand is how this could possibly encourage coffin sales. Like usually, a sexy ad says, “If you wear this perfume, men will find you sexy” or “If you drink this beer, women will surround you at the bar.” I guess here the message is "Pick this coffin, and you'll be the sexiest dead guy. All the half naked ladies at the cemetery will flock to your tombstone." So um, I guess if that's a motivator for you, buy up?

So weird, right? Do you think these ads are inappropriate or fine to drum up publicity for the company? Have you ever seen an odder "sexy" ad?